crafty movies you LOVE

CraftyChicaAZ · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 686 Location: phx, az

Like Water for Chocolate is artsy with food. and the movie Dick has kirsten dunst and michelle williams making clothes out of the flag...this is so fun!
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ktbaynes · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 15

i know its not a movie, but the song 'all i want' by joni mitchell mentions knitting a sweater and writing a love letter, which i think is pretty crafty

plus i LOVE that song.

karikazo · Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 64 Location: N.C.

I finally saw that "Heavenly Creatures" movie that Peter Jackson directed some years ago, about the New Zealand Parker-Hulme murder (or the events leading up to it) in the 1950s. It was very sad but I thought it was really well-done--and the teenage protagonists make little plasticine figures of the characters who inhabit their fantasy world, and parade around in homemade costumes sometimes, and sketch horses and whatnot (I drew a lot of horses when I was a teenager, too...).

Karen · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject:

I found a list (last updated 10/16/02) of knitting in movies & TV:
http://www.angelhairyarn.com/movies.html <
br /> Here's a list of knitting in fiction:
http://www.woolworks.org/bookref.html

I've heard that Tyne Daly crochets &/or knits on "Judging Amy," but I've never seen the show. Anyone?

deborahthecraft · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 364 Location: California

In the first two seasons she was always knitting.

jean · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject:

lahov · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject:

amelie is a totally crafty movie in both senses of the word....
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Karen · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 1:08 pm Post subject:

There's a new romance novel about knitting:
The Shop On Blossom Street
by Debbie Macomber
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
778320448?v=glance

Four lives knit together . . .
There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle. You go there to buy yarn, knitting supplies and patterns -- and now you can join a knitting class. How to knit a baby blanket: that's the first lesson.
Lydia Hoffman owns the shop, which she calls A Good Yarn. It represents her dream of a new beginning, a life free from the cancer that has ravaged her twice. A life that offers a chance at love . . .and maybe marriage.
Jacqueline Donovan, the first woman to join the class, is estranged from her husband; her marriage has dwindled into an arrangement of separate rooms and separate lives. She disapproves of the woman married to her only son, but if she knits a baby blanket, she can at least pretend to like her pregnant daughter-in-law.
For Carol Girard, the baby blanket brings a message of hope as she and her husband make a final attempt at in vitro pregnancy.
And tough-looking Alix Townsend -- that's Alix with an i -- is learning to knit her blanket for a court-ordered community service project.
These four women, brought together by the age-old craft of knitting, make unexpected discoveries -- about themselves and each other. Discoveries that lead to love, to friendship and acceptance, to laughter and dreams. Discoveries only women can share . . .

robotgirl · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 47

In Lovely and Amazing, the main character makes little chairs.

jean · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 7:03 pm Post subject:

doxielove · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 6

My new favorite piece of creativity is the triplets of belleville- saw it twice!!!! It's such a creative animated movie- a real winner. And the grandma in it has a real "rosie the riveter" sensibility.....

Oh also, I just learned that walmart is doing a NETFLIX thing for less money. But, PLEASE everyone, please support netflix. Walmart is not a politically conscious company....
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susan*s · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 99 Location: Portland, OR

my all-time favorite crafty movie is the Sound of Music, when Maria makes all the children play clothes out of her curtains! I love that part.

I'm skimming this thread for new Netflix movies... I just saw lovely and amazing and amelie again. I also just read an awesome article on Pretty in Pink (I think in the Sunday NYT), with an e-mail interview with Molly Ringwald, it's been 20 years since it came out!!
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brdgt · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 3:00 pm Post subject:

In Lost in Translation Scarlett Johanson's character knits a scarf (with bamboo needles...)

icraft · Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Central Coast, CA

I Love in Breakfast at Tiffanys, when Holly is knitting a "ranch house"!